2015 Visiting Scholars

Anita Heber is an Associate Professor at the Department of Criminology, Stockholm University in Sweden. Her main research interests are fear of crime, victimology, the victim-offender overlap, and organized crime. Her current research project is called ‘Organized crime on the agenda’. The purpose of the study is to analyse both the parliamentary debate and media descriptions of organized crime in Sweden since 1989/90. The focus is directed at the interaction between these two arenas, as well as at how the current view of organized crime has evolved. As a visiting scholar at Monash University, Anita will also work with Dr Anna Eriksson during her six month stay to pursue collaborative research and writing projects relating to prisons.

Professor Sandra Walklate will be visiting Monash Criminology from 27 July to 8 August 2015 from Liverpool University. She will be contributing to post and undergraduate training and teaching and presenting a seminar on her research. Professor Walklate has published widely on crime, risk, security, the ‘war on terror’, victimology and gender. She has been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards that recognise her outstanding contribution to criminology. Professor Walklate is also the current editor of the British Journal of Criminology.